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כַּף

kaf · palm, sole

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3709 · appears 193 times in the Bible

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What it means

kaf (כַּף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “palm, sole”.

The palm of the hand or the sole of the foot; also a pan or small bowl.

How to say it

kaf

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. The flat, hollow part of the hand; also what someone does or can do with it.
  2. The underside of the foot, with which one treads.
  3. Something hollow, like a spoon.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

The palm: the open, hollow hand; also the sole of the foot, and by likeness a spoon or a concave vessel. BDB: the hollow hand or palm, also the sole of the foot, the pan of a dish or a sling; figuratively, power.

Historical and cultural background

In Leviticus 14 the priest dips his right finger in the oil “in his left palm” and sprinkles seven times before YHWH.

How we translate it

“Palms” 44 times, “palm” 34, “hand” 34, “hands” 27, “sole” 14, “spoon” 13, “spoons” 12. It is chosen according to the text: “hand” when it is someone's power, “palm” when the image is the open hand, and “spoon” among the furnishings of the sanctuary, as in Exodus 25:29.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • palms ×44
  • hand ×34
  • palm ×34
  • hands ×27
  • sole ×14
  • spoon ×13
  • spoons ×12
  • soles ×6
  • socket ×4
  • branches ×1
  • others ×4

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Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Genesis 8:9

    But the dove did not find a resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of all the earth. And he reached out his hand and took her and brought her to himself into the ark.

  • Genesis 20:5

    Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she, she too said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and in the innocence of my hands I have done this.”

  • Genesis 31:42

    Had not the Elohim of my father, the Elohim of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. Elohim has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and he rebuked you last night.”

  • Genesis 32:25

    When he saw that he could not prevail against him, he touched the socket of his hip, and the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated as he wrestled with him.

  • Genesis 32:32

    That is why, to this day, the sons of Israel do not eat the tendon that is on the socket of the hip, because he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip, on the tendon.

  • Genesis 40:11

    Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I put the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”

  • Genesis 40:21

    He restored the chief of the cupbearers to his post as cupbearer, and he put the cup in Pharaoh’s hand;

  • Exodus 4:4

    Then YHWH said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand and seize it by its tail.” So he stretched out his hand and grasped it, and it became a staff in his hand,

  • Exodus 9:29

    Moses said to him, “As soon as I go out of the city, I will spread out my palms to YHWH; the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth belongs to YHWH.

  • Exodus 9:33

    So Moses went out from Pharaoh, out of the city, and spread out his palms to YHWH; and the thunder and the hail ceased, and rain no longer poured on the earth.

  • Exodus 25:29

    You shall make its plates, its spoons, its jars, and its bowls, with which drink offerings are poured; of pure gold you shall make them.

  • Exodus 29:24

    You shall put all of it on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons, and wave them as a wave offering before YHWH.

  • Exodus 33:22

    And it will be, when my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by.

  • Exodus 33:23

    Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”

  • Exodus 37:16

    And he made the utensils that were on the table, its plates and its spoons and its bowls and the jars with which libations are poured, of pure gold.

  • Leviticus 8:27

    He put it all on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons, and waved them as a wave offering before YHWH.

  • Leviticus 8:28

    Moses took them from their palms and offered them up in smoke on the altar on top of the burnt offering; they were an ordination offering for a pleasing aroma; it was a fire offering to YHWH.

  • Leviticus 9:17

    He presented the grain offering, filled his palm from it, and offered it up in smoke on the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.

  • Leviticus 11:27

    And all that walk on their paws, among all the animals that walk on all fours, they shall be unclean for you; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until the evening.

  • Leviticus 14:15

    The priest shall take some of the log of oil and pour it on the priest’s own left palm.

  • Leviticus 14:16

    The priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left palm and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before YHWH.

  • Leviticus 14:17

    And some of the rest of the oil that is in his palm the priest shall put on the lobe of the right ear of the one being purified, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.

  • Leviticus 14:18

    And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s palm he shall put on the head of the one being purified; and the priest shall make expiation for him before YHWH.

  • Leviticus 14:26

    The priest shall pour some of the oil on the priest’s own left palm,

  • Leviticus 14:27

    and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left palm seven times before YHWH.

  • Leviticus 14:28

    The priest shall put some of the oil that is in his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one being purified, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the guilt offering.

  • Leviticus 14:29

    And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s palm he shall put on the head of the one being purified, to make expiation for him before YHWH.

  • Leviticus 23:40

    And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before YHWH your Elohim seven days.

  • Numbers 4:7

    And over the table of the Presence they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put on it the plates, and the spoons, and the bowls, and the jars for the libation; and the continual bread shall be on it.

  • Numbers 5:18

    And the priest shall set the woman before YHWH and let loose the hair of the head of the woman and put on her palms the grain offering of memorial, which is the grain offering of jealousy; and in the hand of the priest shall be the water of bitterness that brings a curse.

  • Numbers 6:19

    And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them on the palms of the Nazirite after he has shaved off his consecration.

  • Numbers 7:14

    one gold spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

  • Numbers 7:20

    one gold spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

  • Numbers 7:26

    one gold spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

  • Numbers 7:32

    one gold spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

  • Numbers 7:38

    one gold spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

  • Numbers 7:44

    one gold spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

  • Numbers 7:50

    one gold spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

  • Numbers 7:56

    one gold spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

  • Numbers 7:62

    one gold spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

And 153 more times.